General Knowledge Quiz 124

Questions

1. What, related etymologically to the Chinese Yuan and the Japanese Yen, is the currency of North and South Korea?

2. What term meaning unnecessarily confusing language derives from an allusion to turkey noises?

3. Which of these are regarded as the two foremost composers of opera?

   1. Verdi and Wagner
   2. Strauss and Handel
   3. Beethoven and Rachmaninoff
   4. JS Bach and Mozart

4. The four radioactive series titled Thorium, Neptunium, Radium/Uranium and Actinium all decay eventually to stable isotopes of what element?

5. Scruples are a?

   1. Moral anxiety
   2. Generous nature
   3. Contract/agreement
   4. Stomach ache

6. The traditional 'proof' measure of beverage alcoholic strength derives from the maritime method of 'proving' that rum was not waterered down, by dousing what with the rum and igniting it?

7. A costermonger was/is a traditional street-seller of?

   1. Potions and medicines
   2. Meat
   3. Fish
   4. Fruit and vegetables

8. Erstwhile means?

   1. Former
   2. Latter
   3. Current
   4. Imaginery

9. Former butler Paolo Gabriele was convicted in 2012 of stealing documents, and subsequently leaking secrets, of what major international leadership headquarters?

10. Traditionally CE on a calculator key stood for what?

11. What island nation began modernizing reforms in the early 2000s when leadership passed from brother to brother?

12. Google's prior name while under development was 'Back(what?)'?

13. What traditional dark ale is said to derive from its consumption by early 1700s doormen and bag-carrying street workers?

14. The French commune town Laguiole in south-central Midi-Pyrénées region of France is known for what eponymously named tool?

15. What main three countries constituted the Axis Powers?

16. The Starbucks coffee corporation took its name from what classic novel?

17. A sophomore is typically a student in which year of university?

18. What two countries share administrative responsibility for Tierra del Fuego (at 2012)?

19. A phlebotomist historically used what creature as a tool of the trade?

    1. Falcon
    2. Maggot
    3. Leech
    4. Horse

20. What element did Marie Curie name after her native land?